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PS. — It was a stormy night last night, November 7lh, much 

 wind and rain. I did not sugar, but went up to look at the 

 trees, expecting nothing, — when lo ! a fine and perfect Dasy- 

 campa rubiginea was my reward. I felt confident that I 

 ought to find the species, but feared the season was too far 

 advanced. — H. W. Livell. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, S^c. 



Description of the Larva of Eupithecia togata. — On the 

 6lh of September Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, Mr. W. Herd and I 

 started for a locality where Eupithecia togata has occurred 

 tolerably freely, with a resolute determination not to return 

 home till we had found the larva and made ourselves thoroughly 

 acquainted with its food-plant and habits. The perfect 

 insect always occurs in the neighbourhood of spruce fir- 

 trees; to the spruces we therefore directed our attention. 

 Long did we carefully scan the twigs ; diligently did we beat 

 the boughs, but all in vain. "Bother the larvae!" we all 

 exclaimed. We stood together racking our brains, and 

 staring up into a tall spruce. "I've got it!" we almost 

 simultaneously cried out; "they are in the cones." "I'll go 

 up," said Mr. Herd ; and up he went, and soon began to pelt 

 us with cones. Amongst them were several from which a 

 copious quantity of fresh frass was protruding. These were 

 quickly laid open with a sharp knife, and very soon a lively, 

 fat, pinkish-looking larva, very like a miniature Cossus ligni- 

 perda, was disclosed to view, which I at once recognised to 

 be Eupithecia togata, from a beautiful drawing which Mr. 

 Buckler executed for me several years ago, from a larva 

 reared on young shoots of spruce, from eggs laid by a 

 captured female. A further search revealed sundry other 

 larvae: in one fresh fallen cone we found no less than seven 

 of various sizes. They feed between the scales of the cone, 

 upon the ripe seed at the base. The larva is a uniform dull 

 pink, more or less clouded and spotted with black on the 

 dorsal segments. Some of the smaller and younger speci- 

 mens were very dingy. The head is black, with two small 

 white dots at the base ; on the neck are two conspicuous 

 black dots. When full fed it quits the cone, and spins a 



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